Oddbean

https://image.nostr.build/76611556d97e99aa67521636205bf86bd78a4e4530c0a312cf7a3b0a12a2b264.jpg Yes it does. It also attracts totalitarian Communist Marxist tyrants. The communist people's "heil" salute to the Marxist dictator is the raise socialist fist, as we see in this image of the red guards during the Chinese Cultural Destruction and Degradation. We see BLM / Antifa saluting Marxism today, in hopes of destroying individual liberty and freedom throughput the world.

I am in the middle of reading Dune at the moment. I am pretty impressed at Frank Herbert's analysis of governments, culture, and the conditions necessary for humanity to thrive. Especially his concept of the butlerian jihad, which I think is widely misread as being anti technology. What I think he is objecting to is the use of technology to replace human risk taking and exploration with some elaborate but ultimately non-sensical technocratic framework that is expected to solve the garbage-in-garbage-out problem and which, if it were successful, would solve the halting problem. The closest match to what we are going through currently is not AI bullshittery, but the fiat money printer, which promises to remove risk from the process of discovering/producing useful goods and services.